B2 physical or mental pain that a person or animal is feeling:
The war will cause widespread human suffering.
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- Now she is at peace and her suffering is over.
- After months of suffering, his death was a mercy.
- The idea is to kill the animal as quickly as possible without causing unnecessary suffering.
- The drugs did nothing to alleviate her suffering.
- No report can convey the unspeakable suffering that this war has caused.
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